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November 1, 2012
Editor’s Picks for November
November 1, 2012
By GUMBO STAFF
The bright lights of Christmas are given life this month as excitement builds in anticipation of the day of giving.
Everybody has go-to places to scope out Christmas lights. The house two streets over, you know the one with the dancing snowman, right past the house with colored icicles. Or there’s the dozens of props around his house, reindeer and elves and the jolly red man himself, all moving in sync to the Christmas music piped in your car stereo.
Kemper Williams Park in Patterson sets up its annual Christmas light driving tour this month.
Elves flag drivers along a one-mile route with lighted candy canes, their belts and shoes matching a red tunic over green pants. The holiday season is here.
“You drive through the archway and see different Christmas decorations along the path, and of course you hear the Christmas music throughout the park,” says Pricilla Hebert, a park accountant.
The park becomes a lighted museum, of sorts, to satisfy the annual driving tour.
Local history is intertwined with the day of gift giving: Cows graze, a train chugs past an oil depot, a paperboy tosses the daily news, and the Wedell-Williams Model 44 sits perched.
The route is a little over a mile long. Participants are urged to roll down their music and listen to the sounds of the holiday.
Drivers can take the tour between 6 and 9 p.m. every night from Nov. 25 until Dec. 31.
Kemper Williams Park is located at 264 Cotton Road, Patterson. For more information, call (985) 395-2298.
Admission costs $2.
Patterson’s history is intertwined with the Christmas spirit in the lighted display at Kemper Williams Park.
